Showing posts with label Oregon Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oregon Garden. Show all posts

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Places to visit in Oregon

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Washington Park, Oregon

These snaps are of Washington Park, Oregon taken in the spring of 2008. Park is a classic urban park, sprawling over about 140 acres. The park encompasses Japanese Gardens, Oregon Zoo, World Forestry Center Discovery Museum, Portland Children's Museum, International Rose Test Gardens, and Hoyt Arboretum which offers miles of hiking trails. It also contains memorials for the Korean and Vietnam Wars, a Holocaust memorial and a Lewis and Clark memorial. Beautiful view of Portland downtown and Mount Hood.


Sunday, June 22, 2008

Oregon Garden

These snaps are of Oregon Garden taken in the month of June 2008. Oregon Garden is an 80 acre botanical garden and tourist attraction in Silverton, Oregon. Oregon Garden showcases thousands of plants in more than twenty colorful specialty gardens. The last snap is of 400-year-old, 100-foot (30 m) Signature Oak, which is one of Oregon's Heritage Trees.